My training has taken a different direction over the summer.
In the first week of June I finished a heavy traditional weight training focus, over the period of that cycle I increased by five rep squat max from 295-355, and my 5 rep deadlift from 355-418, handstand push ups from 1 rep to 5 reps, and finally learned to consistently due explosive wall mantles. I then went to crossfit cert and put up a personal best fran time of 3:38 while doing only 2 crossfit metcons in the previous 2 months, all of this while dropping my weight from 215-205.
I was very happy with the success of that training cycle but was burned out on spending a great deal of time in the gym and felt over reached, my foot was also injured from a climbing fall and some over use issues. I took a week of and composed my next training cycle.
I decided for the summer I wanted to focus on parkour training, with just maintenance on other capacities, and to take a very intuitive and playful approach to training.
So far so good, I have trained mostly by running routes through the tree's at
Greenlake Park,
the structures at Gasworks park, and the Creek Run at
Whatcom falls.
I have continued to want to work on long jumps, cat leaps and wall passes but have been somewhat limited by foot pain. I have then focused mostly on
fluid routes, and climbing.
I have overcome allot of fears doing high free climbs, jumps at height, and gainer cliff dives recently.
Lately I feel I am in the stage of trying to forget techniques in my practice and learning to focus entirely on adaptive movement.
My training largely falls into two categories. Intensity training and Creativity or Playfull training. The Intensity training includes my once weekly weight lifting sessions were I do box squats or deadlifts, plus handstand push ups and muscles ups, or sprints and jumps at the track which I try to get in once a week or every other week, and hard parkour sprints or route repeats which again I try to get in once a week. I usually mix a couple of these into a high intensity day so I only have one or two high intensity days per week.
The rest of my training usually another 3-4 days a week is mostly exploratory trying to simply move through inviting environments trying to find out best my body can adapts it movements to the surroundings or the most fun and interesting challenges I can create for myself with the environments around. Its about about learning to be true to my movement muse.
Lately my imagination has simply opened up I find myself seeing so much more potential for movement. I have recovered a beginers mind, the childlike exploration of movement and it has been wonderful.
I haven't focused any of the capacities aside from lifting and the parkour training but have tried to take what opportunities came up, to carry, throw, catch, wrestle, stick fight etc in playful way. Having a dog has been great for that. I am going away for a two week parkour trip and then have a some filming coming up after that but after that I look forward to expanding my practice in late summer to incorporate a broader range of primal movement patterns especially combatative training the itch for that training is growing.
